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Feeding Illinois

Feeding Illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

$1.4M
Granted FY2022
3
Itemized grants FY2022
3
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$293k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$51,503
Largest grant, FY2022
$197,936
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
3
Total assets, FY2022
$2.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Feeding Illinois funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20223$293k0%
FY20214$195k0%
FY20208$465kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$953k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northern Illinois Food Bank$515,93640%
St Louis Area Food Bank Inc$158,70340%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$132,60040%
River Bend Food Reservoir$74,71340%
Eastern Illinois Foodbank$24,20040%
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc$23,20030%
Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity Inc$12,90020%
Tri-State Food Bank$10,90040%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Feeding Illinois supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthern Illinois Food Bank: $515,936 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Louis Area Food Bank Inc: $158,703 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $132,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRiver Bend Food Reservoir: $74,713 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEastern Illinois Foodbank: $24,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Illinois Foodbank Inc: $23,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPeoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity Inc: $12,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTri-State Food Bank: $10,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Illinois Children's H…The Woodforest Charit…Feeding AmericaEnterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Illinois Children's Healthcare FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · Feeding America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Feeding Illinois?

Find your warmest path to Feeding Illinois through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Feeding Illinois

How much does Feeding Illinois give?
Feeding Illinois reported 3 itemized grants totaling $293,308, out of $1,412,408 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Feeding Illinois fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (100%).
Who are Feeding Illinois's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Northern Illinois Food Bank ($516k), St Louis Area Food Bank Inc ($159k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($133k).
Does Feeding Illinois fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Feeding Illinois?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation, The Woodforest Charitable Foundation, Feeding America.
Where is Feeding Illinois based?
Feeding Illinois is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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